A hundred flashes and wisps of yellow instantly surrounded me, as the call of my Palace Guard rung like the thunder claps in the storm above "Protect his imperial majesty!"
I was immediately surrounded with a wall of gold, but I simply commanded with a chilling voice "Move aside."
"Sire..." They tried to argue, but one look into the black, bottomless pits of my pupils, and it's unnerving shifting shadows of sanity and insanity joined so unnaturally together, that they could not tell anymore what else they masked in that abyssal hole, and they quickly moved aside; opening a narrow corridor that barely just allowed him and I to face each other.
Maximillian was the first to speak, his face a mixed mask of confidence and pure unblemished fun, the one only a child could make, but with a darkness to it that only the mad can understand "I must say lord of the Eclipse Empire, you have truly went far and beyond my expectations."
